That could work, except for the fact that, and I quote "No, I do have a separate /home partition." ;-) Problem solved!
Dan Graham a �crit: > Hi Jesse, > > 1. Delete all but your /home dir. > 2. Resize what is left with Mandrake's partition resizing tool (hacked > parted) > 3. Name this /home > 4. Create the rest of your partitions as per. > 5. Do a full install as required. > > I just did this with RC3 9.0 for my buddy Howard who had a ton of stuff > on one big / partiton. > No problem. > > Cya, Dan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: S�bastien Taylor > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 9/25/02 7:04 PM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) 9 dot o > > Oh, good, that's easy, you just tell it what partition you want to use > as home, and then turn off the format option. Not sure _exactly_ how > to do that, I don't use Mandrake, but pretty much every installer let's > you do that. The option might also be called "Mount previously > formated partition" something like that is what you want...it should be > pretty obvious. > > Make sure you still back up what you can't afford to loose!! > > > Le Mercredi, 25 sept 2002, � 18:20 Canada/Mountain, Jesse Kline a �crit > : > > > No, I do have a separate /home partition. What I want to do is > > reinstall > > the system (on the root partition) without touching my /home partition > > (which does exist). I'm sure that I read somewhere that you can do > this > > with Mandrake, I'm just wondering how? > > > > Jesse > > > > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:18, S�bastien Taylor wrote: > >> You mean you didn't put your /home on it's own partition?? Shame on > >> you > >> ;-) If you didn't you should back it up and do it this time, or else > >> you can just delete everything else then install on the sorta-clean > >> drive. Or, finally, you could just try to upgrade... > >> > >> > >> Le Mercredi, 25 sept 2002, � 18:00 Canada/Mountain, Jesse Kline a > >> �crit > >> : > >> > >>> I really want to have the latest and greatest, but I'm trying to > >>> figure > >>> out the best way to go about this. I know that upgrades are not > >>> always > >>> the best solution, but I have large video files on my /home > partition > >>> that aren't economical to backup on CD. Is there a way to get > >>> Mandrake > >>> to install over the / partition without touching my /home partition? > > >>> Or > >>> is there a way to do a Debian-style upgrade using urpmi? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Jesse > >>> > >>> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 16:32, Dan Graham wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> The new Mandrake 9.0 "Dolphin" has been released. > >>>> > >>>> cya > >>> > >>> <signature.asc> > > > > <signature.asc> >
